Joan Darc
Translated by Sylvain Gallais and Cynthia Hogue
Scuffing up the surface of history by scuffing up that of language, Nathalie Quintane manages to get at the myth of Joan of Arc from the inside, turning it from myth to immediate life…
Humanities
Prison Pedagogies
Subtitle
Learning and Teaching with Imprisoned Writers
Edited by Sherry Rankins-Robertson and Joe Lockard
In a time of increasing mass incarceration, US prisons and jails are becoming a major source of literary production. Prisoners write for themselves, fellow prisoners, family members, and…
Faking the News
Subtitle
What Rhetoric Can Teach Us About Donald J. Trump
Edited by Ryan Skinnell
Donald J. Trump's speaking and writing invite passionate reactions — maybe he’s a bluecollar, billionaire hero who speaks the language of the common man or maybe he’s a gleefully…
Story Problems
Subtitle
Poems
Written in the form of a reading comprehension exam, the poems in "Story Problems" examine spirituality, religion, science, whiteness, gender, mortality, and childhood, each ending with…
The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies
Edited by Undine Sellbach, Ron Broglio and Lynn Turner
This volume critically investigates current topics and disciplines that are affected, enriched or put into dispute by the burgeoning scholarship on animal studies. What new questions and…
Serendipity in Rhetoric, Writing, and Literacy Research
Edited by Peter N. Goggin and Maureen Daly Goggin
In the course of research, most scholars have known moments of surprise, catastrophe, or good fortune, though they seldom refer to these occurrences in reports or discuss them with…
The Internationalization of US Writing Programs
Edited by Shirley K Rose and Irwin Weiser
"The Internationalization of US Writing Programs" illuminates the role writing programs and WPAs play in defining goals, curriculum, placement, assessment, faculty development, and…
What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth
Subtitle
A Memoir of Brotherhood
Burdened by poverty, illiteracy, and vulnerability as Mexican immigrants to California's Coachella Valley, three generations of González men turn to vices or withdraw into depression. As…
Basements and Other Museums
"With the precision of a surgeon and a poet's reverberant intelligence, Vedran Husić gives us stories of children growing up in war-ravaged Bosnia, a world of vanishing fathers, games…
Millennial Roost
Subtitle
Poetry
"Dustin Pearson's debut collection, 'Millennial Roost,' is exemplary of lyric alchemy at its most powerful. In Pearson's hands, the stunning story of a young man's fateful encounter with…